Calico Illustrated Classics: Pride and Prejudice

Calico Illustrated Classics: Pride and Prejudice — page 1
1 The Bennets It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife In the village of Longbourn the arrival of a young man of fortune to the neighborhood was exciting beyond words Nowhere was the excitement more obvious than at the estate house itself You must visit Netherfi eld Park to meet Mr Bingley Mrs Bennet announced to her husband He must marry one of our girls Is that why he has come here Don’t be silly his wife said But he is certain to fall in love with one of them Perhaps you should visit him with all the girls her husband said I will send along a 4